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When a man tells you to clean your room: bold, dad-like, alpha When a woman tells you to clean your room: intolerable, scolding, radicalizing

the thing about seed saving is that it doesn't preserve anything for the future there is a reason the seedvault in svalbard is important actual preservation of seeds with the possibility of germination beyond 2+ years is difficult the best way to preserve plants for the future is to grow them

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

gay people, repost if u agree

If you wanna move to Europe, feel free to ask me questions. I worked a bit on migration policy before, and I'd love to help more people to come here!

So it goes

I’m obsessing again over minor details that nobody would even notice or care about

I saw a satirical instruction article awhile ago that I can't find! It was like an FAQ for shopping as examples of whataboutism. "How do we prevent the shopkeeper from luring people inside the shop building so they have less witnesses to rob the unsuspecting shopper??" Can't find it again!

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hobbiting up due to the cold weather

if you don't follow sumo you don't know that the winner gets a comically large macaron

I've seen an increase in people publicizing fundraisers from accounts claiming to be in Gaza lately, and folks: please, before you do so, just check the punch card. bsky.app/profile/raha...

Pick a thing. Pick a thing that will let you see the measurable impact. Do something that will help a specific person. Learn skills you can use to visibly and measurably chip away at one tiny bit of the problem.

This is why online "awareness" activism has a tendency to burn people out faster than effective IRL activism. What's your goal? "Raising awareness"? Okay, how do you measure that? How do you know you were effective? What can you point at and say "I did that and it concretely made things better"?

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

ok i was mostly joking but this kinda fit would actually go so hard

I have a major trade deficit with the supermarket. I keep buying food from them and they’ve bought nothing from me

Feels like one of those weeks where it's worth reminding people that Carl Sagan's Cosmos is on archive.org If you need some comfy viewing start here: archive.org/details/carl...

Commit the sin of empathy.

Would you still love me if I was an onion? 🥺

whenever i'm up all night writing with the cat i think of Pangur Ban - the cat of an Irish monk who lived in Reichenau Abbey in the 9th century, and the poem the monk wrote about him.

And that channel is 100% only possible because for every 10,000 people who watch SciShow...one of them pays for it. TEN THOUSAND TO ONE!! That's all it takes to support high quality science content on a platform that does...not always have the highest quality content.

If you send us $25 we will send you a postcard. That postcard will contain: 1. Autographs from all the scishow hosts 2. Art and facts from the SciShow team 3. A QR code to one of four exclusive videos from me discussing my favorite frog facts.